Slip­knot, ‘All Out Life’

This year’s Hal­loween came with a full-throt­tle dose of Iowa-grown bru­tal­ity. The macabre metal non­tet Slip­knot has un­veiled “All Out Life,” the band’s first re­lease in four years. The song comes ac­com­pa­nied by a video di­rected by Slip­knot co-founder and per­cus­sion­ist M. Shawn “Clown” Cra­han. Front­man Corey Tay­lor dis­cussed “All Out Life” with Zane Lowe on Ap­ple Mu­sic’s Beats 1, call­ing the band’s up­com­ing al­bum “one of the dark­est chap­ters in Slip­knot’s his­tory; it’s that good.” The song de­liv­ers a twofold mes­sage, Tay­lor ex­plained in a news state­ment: “Bring ev­ery­one to­gether, but also re­mind ev­ery­one that the past is not some­thing to be dis­carded with dis­dain.” – Matthew Leimkuehler